President Barack Obama is once again warning House Republicans that he will not negotiate over a debt-ceiling increase, even as the U.S. government moves closer to its borrowing limit.

Obama called Speaker John Boehner Friday night to reiterate his hard-line stance. The Ohio Republicans office said the president called to say he wouldnt negotiate with him on the debt limit.

Given the long history of using debt limit increases to achieve bipartisan deficit reduction and economic reforms, the speaker was disappointed but told the president that the two chambers of Congress will chart the path ahead, a Boehner aide said in an email. It was a brief call.

A White House official said Obama spoke to both Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

The President telephoned Speaker Boehner and told him again that the full faith and credit of the United States should not and will not be subject to negotiation, the official said in a statement provided to POLITICO. The President reiterated that it is the constitutional responsibility of the US Congress to pass the nations budget and pay the nations bills.

The President telephoned Speaker Boehner and told him again that the full faith and credit of the United States should not and will not be subject to negotiation, the official said in a statement provided to POLITICO. The President reiterated that it is the constitutional responsibility of the US Congress to pass the nations budget and pay the nations bills.

So what's the problem?

We stop borrowing and start paying down the debt ... "paying down the nation's bills"

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posted on 09/21/2013 4:14:40 PM PDT
by knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)

It’s not their responsiblity to borrow more money to create more bills that will require borrowing more money to not pay either. I wish Boehner had a pair but we know better. John will cave again. No surprise here.

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posted on 09/21/2013 4:16:27 PM PDT
by Conspiracy Guy
(To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)

Bonehead Boehner. You don't negotiate with a communists King. You don't even consider it. What you do is call King Obama a communists wanna be dictator and do it so America can hear. Stop being a crybaby.

If I were Boehner, I’d warn Buckwheat that he don’t got no Muslims to back his skinny ass up, and his black slaves on the democrat plantation don’t know that you don’t hold your glocks sideways, even you got 2.2 billion rounds of cop-killer bullets. I’s also remind Buckwheat, if I were Boehner, that the latest poll shows that blacks fear these three things most:

1. Ghosts.

2. Dark forests.

3. Mosquitoes.

So if’n Buckwheat wants to get crazy azz crackers in fly-over America, he starts at a distinct disadvantage. Ain’t no muslims in deep, dark forests here in America, and black folk don’t like trees that cast dark shadows neither.

I think we may end up with a very interesting 2014 election season in which a lot of Democrats go out of their way to distance themselves from Barack Obama and paint him as an uncompromising leftist @sshole.

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posted on 09/21/2013 4:32:08 PM PDT
by Alberta's Child
("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")

The house does not need obumber or Reid. All they have to do is sit on their hands, play cards or whatever until the dims beg for money.
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And you know they most certainly will.

The Bamster is afeared. If you do not plan to negotiate, you do not call you opponent and tell them that you shall not negotiate. This weenie craves attention and is desperate to fell as though he is in control.

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posted on 09/21/2013 5:08:03 PM PDT
by Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)

Boehner is a complete idiot and will get played again. What he needs to do is give interview after interview with the MSM and explain to the American people what needs to be done. Hold the line and make sure you are making your case EVERY DAY in as public a manner as possible. Come across as a reasonable person but make it impossible to be ignored. Don’t whine like a pathetic baby.

Of course Boehner’s public demeanor during any interview is pathetic and unconvincing. He simply doesn’t have the capacity to make a convincing case to anyone. If he had ANY sense of duty he would have resigned years ago.

Here’s the problem John, if you don’t even understand what game is being played it’s pretty damn hard to win.

I wonder what people of FreeRepublic would think of the following deal: 1. A continuing resolution for the year that does not fund Obama care. 2. A debt ceiling increase targeted to get the US through the year.

The so called president has things a bit backward. Maybe Obama has chronic role reversal crisis.Or maybe its simpler, Obama is just a tresonous bashturd who happens to be a facsist bent on destroying our nation.

Nope. He’s just a spoiled child who was socially promoted from first grade, all the way through the Democrat primary in 08. So to insure a win for the stupid little child the RNC shoe-horned McCain into a primary win. Had it not been for Palin, 0bama would have won 80% of both the popular vote and the electoral college. Republicans are afraid to say no to this putz.

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posted on 09/21/2013 5:43:57 PM PDT
by Conspiracy Guy
(To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)

So then, why does Boehner even bother to answer the phone? It seems to me that when a fool like Obama calls you to talk about a bill, he’s negotiating. It’s just that you can ignore his opening position. If he’s not negotiating, why is he calling?

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posted on 09/21/2013 5:54:30 PM PDT
by norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)

I found a dozen other links but they all use the same source the National Report.Unless I can find another source that independently says the same thing I will ask the mods to remove my earlier post.
I found one other, a Nixon blog or something but they used an anonymous source,no good for me.

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posted on 09/21/2013 6:08:28 PM PDT
by rodguy911
(FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)

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